Cherry Thumbprint Cookies
Crumbly, melt-in-your mouth cookies filled with a fresh and fruity cherry jam. These are the perfect Summer time cookie!
- Prep Time: 20
- Cook Time: 12
- Total Time: 32 minutes
- Yield: 12 1x
- Category: Cookie
- Method: Easy
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
Scale
Cherry Jam
- 150g Whole cherries, approx. 1 cup
- 50g (1/4 cup) Sugar
- 1 tsp Lemon juice
Cookie
- 115g (1/2 cup) Unsalted butter, room temperature
- 60g (1/2 cup) Icing/powdered sugar
- 1 Egg yolk
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
- 140g (3/4 cup 2 tbsp) Plain flour
- 15g (2 tbsp) Cornstarch
Instructions
Cherry Jam
- Finely chop cherries
- Combine cherries, sugar and lemon juice in a small saucepan
- Heat over medium heat for 8-10 minutes until thickened
- Cool
Cookie
- Preheat the oven to 175C/350F
- Cream butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy
- Add egg yolk and vanilla extract, beat until well combined
- Mix in flourand cornstarch, stir until just combined
- Roll into 12 balls and create a heart shape in the centre of each ball using two thumbprints joined at the bottom
- Fill the thumbprint with cooled cherry jam
- Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until lightly golden brown
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